Google Employees Protest Pentagon Project Involving Drones and AI
These days, employees at every major tech company, like Facebook, Amazon, and Google, have something to complain about. Whether it’s data security, wages, or gender equality, there has been enough backlash in the office to feed media outlets consistent headlines for months. Well, Google’s at it again. With its open-source artificial intelligence (AI) tool, TensorFlow, […]
Amazon Designed a Mobile Platform for Its Delivery Drones
Amazon clearly believes that drones are key to the online shopping giant’s continued success and evolution. But any internet of things app developer with experience working on drones will tell you that we are still in the Wild West phase of drone development. Laws and regulations regarding drone air traffic are still being worked out, […]
MIT Uses AI to Figure Out Recipes Based on Pictures of Food
As iPhone app developers already know, the researchers and engineers at MIT are responsible for some of the most exciting advancements in tech. Since its founding, the institute has had a reputation as one of the most elite schools in the country; it’s a gathering place for geniuses. We have written in recent months about […]
MIT to the Rescue with the New Jungle Hawk Owl Drone
It should be no surprise that MIT — you know, that school that’s basically synonymous with innovation — is doing amazing work with drones. Boston IoT app developers may already be aware of the autonomous, AI-assisted camera drones being tested by researchers at the school’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Now the brilliant engineers […]
FAA Opens First Drone Test Site
The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has opened the first of six planned testing facilities for unmanned aircraft. The first test site is located in North Dakota, and became operational a full two months ahead of the previously announced schedule. Officially, the North Dakota site will be used to allow drones to conduct soil […]